You can eat them straight away, just sprinkle a pinch of salt and pepper on them, and enjoy! Once they’ve cooled, peel the soft-boiled eggs carefully, taking care not to break them.The easiest way to do this is to carefully pour the water out, run some cold water over the eggs in the pot, or you can dump them straight into ice-cold water. As soon as the timer rings, without wasting a moment, jump up and immediately get the eggs out of the water.As soon as the eggs hit the water set the timer for 2 minutes and 20 seconds. If you’re cooking more than one quail egg, they must be placed into the boiling water at the same time, so you may have to use a larger spoon so that you can gather them carefully and gently lower them into the water. Once the water is boiling and you’ve chosen an average-sized egg, get your timer ready and lay the egg on a spoon carefully dunking them into the water.Each gram increasing or decreasing its cooking time by approximately 10 seconds per gram. Small eggs will take less time, and larger eggs will take longer. Quail eggs weight anything from 8 to 15 grams, the most average size being 12 grams. You need to use an average-sized quail egg, as some free-range quail eggs vary in size dramatically.You could boil a kettle instead and pour the hot water into the small pot, turning the stove on to medium-high heat, so that the water boils but not vigorously. Take a small pot and fill it with about one litre of water, and bring it to the boil.This is how you soft boil your quail eggs: These wonderful bite-sized eggs with speckled shells, can be soft boiled, so that the tiny, warm and runny yolk can slide into your mouth effortlessly, and they only need 2 minutes in boiling water to make! You’ll only need a small pot for this so that the eggs can be boiled in a small space, rather than jumping and knocking all over the place in a larger pot. Here are a few ways that you can cook and eat quail eggs:

You can fry the eggs to make a great breakfast, or have them poached and use them as an excellent salad topping. Many of us are quite familiar with boiling a standard chicken egg, but because quail eggs are much smaller and adorable they are naturally a bit more fragile, and need to be boiled a little differently.